Digital Humanities – access, preservation and saving of resources in the digital age

The Digital Humanities portal provides access to information sources of institutes in research area III of the CAS. Both specialized electronic information sources fully accessible online, electronic sources accessible only from the individual workplaces of the institutes and information sources yet to be digitized are presented. The portal further serves as a platform for the aggregation and presentation of information on current developments in the area of digital humanities in the Czech Republic and abroad.

The exhibition, which is one of the outputs of the PROVENIO – Virtual Reconstruction of Book Units project, uses a new tool for creating virtual exhibitions, which was created within the INDIHU project – development of tools and infrastructure for digital humanities.

A record from the last LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ tutorial during which Maarten Janssen from the University of Coimbra introduced the TEITOK tool that combines corpus tools with the TEI standard can be viewed here: https://lectures.ms.mff.cuni.cz/view.php?rec=456

Italian literary scholar Franco Moretti will give a lecture on Simulation of Dramatic Networks. Emeritus professor at Stanford University returns to Prague after twenty years at the invitation of the Czech Literary Bibliography (Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) and ArteActa (Academy of Performing Arts in Prague).

The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 10th–12th September 2020. The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities.

This year’s first seminar, organized by the LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ Research Infrastructure, will be a tutorial on TEITOK, a web-based platform for creating, searching and editing corpora represented in TEI coding. Its use will be demonstrated on several selected corpora and participants will have the opportunity to try TEITOK on their own data.

XML Prague is a conference on XML for developers, markup geeks, information managers, and students. XML Prague focuses on markup and semantic on the Web, publishing and digital books, XML technologies for Big Data and recent advances in XML technologies. The conference provides an overview of successful technologies, with a focus on real world application versus theoretical exposition.

The Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in cooperation with CzADH prepared a lecture in which Miguel Escobar Varela from the National University of Singapore will present the possibilities of using digital methods in the study of theater performances.

The third of a series of tutorials on data processing and computational research in the humanities, prepared by the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ research infrastructure, will take place on 28 November at the MFF ÚK. Registration is not required and participation is free.